spaghetti

Pasta in long, thin strands, usually cooked in water and served with sauce.

• We had spaghetti for dinner.
• Do you want cheese on your spaghetti?
• She cooked spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce.

Similar words: pasghetti, sketti, spag

Common phrases: spaghetti sauce, spaghetti and meatballs, cook spaghetti, plate of spaghetti

Something made of long, thin pieces, often twisted together in a messy way.

• Her dress has spaghetti straps.
• A spaghetti of cables covered the floor.
• The map showed a spaghetti of roads around the city.

Similar words: tangle

Common phrases: spaghetti straps, spaghetti junction, spaghetti of wires

A messy pile of plastic threads produced when a 3D print goes wrong.

• The printer produced spaghetti instead of a model.
• Poor bed adhesion left a pile of spaghetti.
• We stopped the print when spaghetti formed around the nozzle.

Common phrases: filament spaghetti, spaghetti failure, pile of spaghetti

To make someone or something much longer and thinner.

• Strong gravity can spaghetti an object.
• The machine spaghettied the soft material into thin strands.
• In the cartoon, the giant spaghetties anyone he grabs.

Similar words: stretch, elongate

Common phrases: spaghetti something, spaghetti someone

To become twisted together in a messy way.

• The loose wires began to spaghetti together.
• Our cables spaghettied behind the desk.
• These long cords always spaghetti when I pack them.

Similar words: tangle

Opposites: untangle

Common phrases: cables spaghetti together, wires spaghetti together